Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — The Talcott Girls. [ARTICLE]

The Talcott Girls.

A young minister, recently settled over a Massachusetts parish, has already learned the lesson that age Is not a positive but a comparative term, ills parishioners are scattered over a large area, and he has not yet seen them all, although he has made as many calls as his other duties permit His round brought him one day to the house of a little old lady who was nearly elghty-flve and bedridden, She was delighted to see him, and when he Wse to go, after a long call, she told him how much pleasure he had given her. “Now I want you to go to see the girls,” she said, earnestly, "the Talcott girls. They were up here a few days ago, and they’re looking forward to a call from you. Living alone as they do, since their ma and pa died, they have some pretty lonesome times, and they set a great deal by callers." “I certainly will try to go there soon,” aald the young minister, and when he met one of the deacons of the church on his way home he spoke of the old lady’s request. "I think I don’t know the girls by Bight,” said the young man, “but I didn’t wish to hurt the old lady’s feelings by saying so. Where do they alt?” The deacon smiled. “In the last pew but one In the gallery,” he said. "But I hardly think you would recognize them as girls. Miss Emily 1b slxty-one and Miss Frances slxtythree, according to the records.” — Youths’ Companion.